Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...erected, two whole golf courses bought, cut up into sod and used to grass the Exposition. For the last few months, 7,000 to 10,000 workmen have been working three shifts a day. On every job was a big sign reading " - days until June 6. We shall not fail." Last week the fateful numbers on the sign fell from 10 to 9 to 8 to 7 and still buildings were going up, statues being cast. Among the buildings likely to be incomplete was the State of Texas building, but still the Expositioneers swore that all would be ready...
...Left sabotage would invite a Fascist triumph. Said he: "Some people say that ours will be a Kerensky government, that it will be working to prepare the way for a Lenin, who will be the one to benefit. That is not so. In France, if some Kerensky were to fail, it would not be a Lenin who would be the beneficiary...
...that other sources of income should be sought and that every possible effort should be made to continue the existence of this school which for the past twenty five years through the influence of its graduates has really been the most vitalizing force in the profession. For Harvard to fail in this effort, thus sacrificing so much of the achievement to date, will be to admit either that she has not sufficient breadth of vision to recognize the essential art of planning or that she does not feel it important enough to seek further some way of providing...
...League of Nations Union had been deliberately minimized to spare the feelings of the Baldwin Cabinet, benign old Viscount Cecil of Chelwood promptly rose to complain: "It seems to me utterly ridiculous! Everything that has happened in the past two months has been recorded in the Press, and I fail to see why it should not be shown in the films." Always glad of a chance to blast any kind of censor ship, London editors found themselves in agreement with Viscount Cecil. "This time the film censorship has really passed all bounds," cried the Daily Herald. "Such dictatorship possesses...
...ardently wish that our English friends will succeed in overcoming it. The organization of peace and of the League of Nations is based on the fundamental condition that there is agreement between the British and French democracies. What could be more tragic than if Britain were to fail the great cause precisely at the moment when France is preparing to support it to the best of her ability...